Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2006-08-21
Phys.Rev.D74:115008,2006
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Conforms to published version. Minor clarifications and corrections, and additions to acknowledgments
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.74.115008
Recent direct searches for new massive particles place constraints on the free parameters of the Littlest Higgs model. Depending on the choice of model free parameters, the direct search limit on the global symmetry breaking scale f can range from as low as a few hundred GeV to in excess of 4.5 TeV. The most stringent constraints are from exclusion of the A_H using high-mass dilepton resonance searches. The Z_H provides the best constraint in parameter regions where the A_H decouples from leptons. Current top pair resonance data approach but do not yet reach a useful limit in the anomaly-cancelling case, but do provide a constraint for a limited range of parameters in other cases. A neutral gauge boson is shown to be undetectable in dilepton resonances for a significant range of parameter space due to decoupling from Standard Model leptons, providing a counterexample to broad claims that a new neutral gauge boson (sometimes generically referred to as a Z') is ruled out to a high mass scale.
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